Photographs: Co. Cork

Shining Crane's-bill Geranium lucidum Crobh geal Family: Geraniaceae Flowering time: April-August. Annual. Native. Small pink flowers, petals rounded at tips. Keeled, hairless sepals. Fruit ridged, very slightly downy. Blunt-toothed lobes. Long-stalked leaves, shiny green, sometimes red tinged. Brittle fleshy stems. A branched, spreading plant, more/less hairless. Height: 10-50 cm Prefers calcareous ground, rocks, walls, pavement edges and hedgebanks. Locally frequent.

Shining Crane's-bill, Geranium lucidum, Crobh geal